Shields v. Booles’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Stringer v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2004), Billups Petroleum Co. v. Hardin's Bakeries Corp. (1953)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Nixon v. Herndon · Wiley v. Sinkler · Giles v. Harris · Allison v. Chandler
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is not an actionable injury to the character, person, or property of a candidate for office for his adversary to bribe voters. It is an offense to be redressed in a prosecution by the commonwealth, or in a contest of the nomination where the wrongdoer may be deprived of the fruits of his wrong. [A] candidate is not the injured party, or within the purpose o[r] purview of the remedy allowed a voter for being deprived wrongfully of his right to vote. Nor was the right of appellant to be a candidate in the primary infringed or affected. That right was fully enjoyed by the appellant. A violation of his right to receive any votes that might have been cast for him but for the wrongful interference of appellees did not result in any injury to his character, person, or property that could be the subject of a suit for damages. The remedy for wrongs of that character, if carried to an extent that affected the result of the election, was for the unsuccessful candidate to institute a contest, where he could protect his own rights, and vindicate the rights of the public as well. His abstract right to be elected was conditioned upon his ability to get a majority of the votes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The statute does not give a right of action to every person against any one violating a statute, but only to persons suffering injury as the direct and proxi-. mate result thereof; and then only for such damage as they may sustain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGrew v. Stone“[W]hen the words are slanderous or libelous per se, general damages are presumed to have accrued from the wrong done and need not be averred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.